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Wastewater Technology - Technical Information

This page contains links to technical information about wastewater collection and treatment systems. 
Below are the following general categories:

• Biological Nutrient Removal and Enhanced Biological Nutrient Removal

• Collection Systems

Disinfection

• General Technical Information

Instrumentation and Controls

• Nitrification and Denitrification

 Sewage Treatment Biology

• Sludge Bulking

• Water Reuse

If you know of a good technical source to add to the list, email: Marcy Garnett

Biological Nutrient Removal and Enhanced Biological Nutrient Removal:

Behaviors of intercellular materials and nutrients in biological nutrient removal process supplied with domestic wastewater and food waste

Biological Nutrient Removal Forum (WEF)  

Enhanced Nutrient Removal— Nitrogen (pdf)

 High Purity Oxygen Biological Nutrient Removal (pdf)

Point Source Pollution - Chesapeake Bay Program and BNR      

Practical Considerations for Design of a Step-Feed Biological Nutrient Removal System (pdf)

Reducing Methonal Requirements for the LOTT Biological Nutrient Removal Wastewater Treatment Plant (pdf)

Simultaneous biological nutrient removal: evaluation of autotrophic denitrification, heterotrophic  nitrification, and biological phosphorus removal in full-scale systems

The Evolution to Enhanced Nutrient Removal Technology (in Maryland)

  

True Confessions of the Biological Nutrient Removal Process (pdf)

   

Collection Systems:

Collection Systems Forum (WEF)

 Emerging Technologies for Conveyance Systems - New Installations and Rehabilitation Methods (pdf)

Estimating Pump Performance (Ross Mackay)

 Protecting Our Pipelines - Eliminating Air Entrainment (HRSD video)

Pump Ed 101 -  Understanding Pumps, Motors, and Their Controls

 Pump Submergence Calculations and Air Entrainment

 Pump Submergence Guidelines / Equation

   

Disinfection:

          • UV Lamp Maintenance (pfd)

   

General Technical Information:

 Grease Trap Guidelines

 Meter Size Calculator

 Online Conversions - Convert just about anything to anything else

  

Instrumentation and Controls:

          • Failure to Pump Monitor 421 (pdf)

           Failure to Pump Monitor PMP-25 (pdf)

   

Nitrification and Denitrification:

 An Investigation of the Feasibility of Nitrification and Denitrification of a Complex Industrial

Wastewater with High Seasonal Temperatures (VPI thesis) (pdf)

Archaea Improves Ammonia Removal (pdf)

 Deep Bed Denitrification Filters Play Role in Improved Wastewater Quality (pdf)

 Denitrification (Virtual tour)

 Nitrification (definition and basic chemistry)

 Nitrification (Virtual tour)

Nitrification Basics for Aerated Lagoon Operators

 Nitrogen Removal Technologies for Meeting Nitrogen Load Reductions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (VPI) (pdf)

 Nutrient Removal – An Evolving Challenge (pdf)

Simultaneous Nitrification and Denitrification in Aerobic Chemostat Cultures of Thiosphaera pantotropha

 Technical Tale - Aerobic MCRT for Nitrification Control (pdf)

The Nitrogen Cycle

 Troubleshooting of Nitrification Upsets at Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment Plant (pdf)

  

Sewage Treatment Biology:

Ciliata: Life History and Ecology

 Introduction to the Rotifera

Nitrobacter winogradskyi Nb-255

Nitrosomonas eutropha C71

Rotifers: A General Introduction

                          

Sludge Bulking:

Activated Sludge Microbiology Problems and their Control (pdf)

Evaluation of Settling and Foaming Properties of Activated Sludges

 Practical Control Methods For Activated Sludge Bulking and Foaming

    

Water Reuse:

 EPA Guidelines for Water Reuse (pdf)

Potential Impacts of Nanoparticles on Water Reclamation (pdf)

  

Water Efficiency Journal

  

 


 



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